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Terry Gilliam, the director who gave us Brazil, Time Bandits, 12 Monkeys, and so many more, has finally finished the movie he’s been trying to make for 25 years. The production did not go smoothly. Cinematographer Nicola Pecorini claims that “never in 22 years of being in this business have I seen such a sum […]
Our fellow Member, Joseph Mark, didn’t like what he heard during Glenn Beck’s interview with Arthur Brooks from the American Enterprise Institute. You can read and watch Joseph here. I just finished reading Brooks’ latest book, Love Your Enemies, which I recommend, and also enjoyed The Conservative Heart, which I also recommend. I don’t agree […]
Recently, Glenn Beck had Arthur Brooks from the American Enterprise Institute on his weekly podcast. The guy struck me as this “middle of the road” centrist who likes to act all lofty because he’s so much more mature and moral than the rest of us… why? Because he believes in making nice with our politically […]
(UPDATE: toppled, not sunk) SpaceX is a company of firsts, but this is one they probably wish they could have avoided. As reported by Stephen Clark at SpaceFlightNow: The core booster from the Falcon Heavy rocket that launched Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida tipped over in rough seas after landing on an […]
I absolutely love to debate people, especially those with diametrically opposed viewpoints. It allows me to see what the other side thinks as well as to see things from their perspective. In doing so, I can then further develop my own opinions. If that person has a lot of good points and is articulate in […]
Two conservative, Australian journalists, Avi Yemini and Sydney Watson, were detained by Customs and Border Protection after Comedy Central reported that they might have violent intentions directed at them. Ms Watson, a dual American/Australian citizen, was detained, questioned, and released. Mr. Yemini was detained, questioned, and deported on the strength of Comedy Central’s allegations. Apparently, […]
So far, this is just a blob of cells in the right shape of the organ, but it’s a significant advance. As reported by Ben Coxworth in the New Atlas blog: Led by Prof. Tal Dvir, a team at Israel’s Tel Aviv University started by taking a fat sample from a volunteer. That fat was […]
It’s been a couple of weeks since the Parkland Incident, and for the most part, I’ve kept my own counsel on the gun control debate, in the hope that time and distance would enable me to express my thoughts dispassionately. I use the term debate loosely, because the postings I’ve seen from both sides of […]
So, Trans Lesbianism is apparently a thing, now. For those of you who don’t know, a Trans Lesbian is a man, who identifies as a woman, but is still attracted To women. I have to admit, when I first heard of this, a few days ago, it pretty much pegged the needle of my absurdometer. […]
It was recently revealed that Stephen Hawking’s final paper was in support of the hypothesis that the world we live in is one giant computer-generated simulation, built and maintained by highly advanced computers (that we probably created). Hawking was not alone in this conjecture. Elon Musk, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Scott Adams and many other Smart […]
NPR does a nice bit on the idiocy of plastic bag bans. No really: A bunch of studies find that paper bags are actually worse for the environment. They require cutting down and processing trees, which involves lots of water, toxic chemicals, fuel and heavy machinery. While paper is biodegradable and avoids some of the problems of plastic, Taylor says, the […]
Howl, howl, howl!
Old fashioned banning-banning is about to make its triumphant comeback! I gotta imagine that there are a lot of folks in the so-called free world who are about sick of you thinking that you’re free to speak your mind. How many denizens of our own government are itching to push back against the “Chinese model” […]
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Exercise extreme caution when investing in a company that obviously has no business plan beyond hoping the profit fairy eventually shows up. Market Ticker I won’t quote you the whole S-1 or the pieces of it that, between them, are somewhere beyond comic-book dreams. It’s astonishing that a company would come to market with a […]